sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available
Adam Weinberger
adamw at adamw.org
Mon Mar 12 20:42:49 UTC 2018
> On 12 Mar, 2018, at 11:30, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> There should be no reason to download prebuilt executables for open
> source software. Binaries present security risk.
>
> It violates chapter 5.4 of PHB which mentions that MASTER_SITES/DISTNAME
> refers to "source archive", and for sysutils/ipfs-go it isn't a source
> archive.
>
>
> This port should be either deleted or reworked.
While source is preferred over binary, we don’t delete ports just because
they have binary blobs.
# Adam
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